Mechinagar. 72-year-old Padmalal Tamang, who was living in a Bhutanese refugee camp in Beldangi, Damak, died due to an attack by a wild elephant.
According to Meghraj Rai, head of Division Forest Office, Jhapa, Tamang was attacked by an elephant in the Hamsedumse community forest outside the camp on Tuesday evening.
Tamang lived in Hut No. 252 of Sector No. 2 of the camp. He went to the forest to find firewood in the afternoon.
After he did not return home till evening, during the search, he was found dead in the forest, said Rai, the head of the Division Forest Office.
Similarly, wild elephants destroyed a single concrete house of Vishal Dahal located in Mechinagar municipality-11.The victim Dahal informed that an elephant that entered the village from the local Bansbari community forest broke the wall and entered the house and ate 400 kg of paddy and 200 kg of rice.
